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Get Stock quotes from Yahoo finance pages in python.
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| import urllib.request | |
| from bs4 import BeautifulSoup | |
| def getPrice(tag): | |
| source = "https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/"+tag | |
| filehandle = urllib.request.urlopen(source) | |
| soup = BeautifulSoup(filehandle.read(), "html.parser") | |
| priceSpan = soup.findAll("span", { "class" : "Fz(36px)" }) | |
| for k in priceSpan: | |
| return(k.getText()) | |
| def getDayChange(tag): | |
| source = "https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/"+tag | |
| filehandle = urllib.request.urlopen(source) | |
| soup = BeautifulSoup(filehandle.read(), "html.parser") | |
| priceSpan = soup.findAll("span", { "class" : "Fw(500)" }) | |
| for k in priceSpan: | |
| return(k.getText()) |
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where are the results (price quotes) stored.